Being a Premier Club member gives you and your team the contacts, knowledge and profile to trade more effectively in the convenience store sector. Premier Club members have unrivalled and invaluable access to the senior decision makers across the UK convenience industry, through market-leading digital and physical events focused on the future of the industry.
ACS has the knowledge and information to help you and your teams to understand the sector, all made available at your fingertips 24/7 to help your team prepare for every customer meeting. We also provide bespoke learning and strategy sessions for your business.
Premier Club’s core activity and focus is centred around six key areas of networking, team learning and development, information, brand promotion, company reputation, and strategy. We have created an infrographic with more information about what is included within the Premier Club package, more details can be found here.
For more information, please contact Will Nelson, Head of Supplier Relations via will.nelson@acs.org.uk
Allied Bakeries is one of three divisions of Allied Milling and Baking, which in turn is part of Associated British Foods plc. We’re the people who make the familiar names you see on grocery store shelves: Kingsmill, Burgen, Allinson and Sunblest. As well as bread, we make rolls, pancakes, crumpets, muffins, hot cross buns, wraps and other delicious bakery products.
Arla Foods UK plc is home to some of the UK’s leading dairy brands including Cravendale, Lurpak and Anchor. Processing approximately two billion litres of milk a year Arla continues to be one of the UK’s leading dairy companies and a supplier of fresh liquid milk and cream.
Birdseye is one of Iglo Group’s core brands. Iglo Group is Europe’s leading branded frozen food business with sales of over €1.5bn and 28% market share. It produces and markets premium branded frozen food products in 11 countries and distributes across a number of other markets in Central and Eastern Europe.
Birdseye is a category-defining name synonymous with high quality, great tasting frozen food.
Iglo Foods’ focus is on healthy, convenient and sustainable foods. They also have clear environmental policies which are aimed at limiting their impact on the environment, these include issues such as climate change, waste, packaging, water, transport efficiency, responsible sourcing, ethical sourcing as well as lifestyle issues including nutrition and labelling, and promoting a healthy lifestyle for consumers.
British American Tobacco’s portfolio holds over 200 brands, sold in 180 markets. Recognisable names include Kent, Dunhill, Lucky Strike and Pall Mall.
The four building blocks of British American Tobacco’s strategy are Growth, Productivity, Developing a Winning Organisation, and Responsibility. They believe each area to be interdependent and essential for delivering profit growth and long term business sustainability.
Britvic plc is one of Europe’s leading soft drinks companies, with an enviable portfolio of market leading brands, such as Robinsons, J2O, Fruit Shoot, Tango and drench in GB, MiWadi, Club and Ballygowan in Ireland, and Teisseire, Fruite and Pressade in France. We also have exclusive bottling agreements with PepsiCo in the UK and Ireland for global brands such as Pepsi and 7Up.
Our current operations comprise Britvic GB, Britvic Ireland, and Britvic France. The group is completed by Britvic International which manages the export and franchise of many of our brands across more than 50 countries.
Collectively we employ approximately 3500 people and sell 1.9bn litres of soft drinks each year.
Budweiser is an American-style pale lager produced by Anheuser-Busch, currently part of the transnational corporation Anheuser-Busch InBev and produced in various breweries around the world. Budweiser is produced using barley malt, rice, water, hops and yeast. Malt gives colour and the sugar that is needed for the beer to ferment. Yeast is key in the flavour. The hops gives the beer spice, aroma and bitterness. Another ingredient is rice, helping Budweiser achieve crispness in its flavour. Finally, there is the water, which is filtered to make sure it's pure. The brewing happens in 7 steps: milling, mashing, straining, brew kettle, primary fermentation, beechwood lagering and finishing. It is lagered with beechwood chips in the aging vessel. While beechwood chips are used in the maturation tank, there is little to no flavour contribution from the wood, mainly because they are boiled in sodium bicarbonate (baking soda) for seven hours for the very purpose of removing any flavour from the wood. The maturation tanks that Anheuser-Busch uses are horizontal and, as such, flocculation of the yeast occurs much more quickly.
Here at the Burtons Biscuit Company, we are very proud to be the purveyors of some of the nation’s favourite biscuits.
With brands including Maryland, Cadbury Fingers, Jammie Dodgers, Wagon Wheels and Fish n’ Chips, we have been baking biscuits for more than 75 years in three main manufacturing facilities across the UK in Llantarnam, Edinburgh and Blackpool. Our head office is based in St. Albans.
We’re the only major biscuit manufacturer in the UK to focus solely on biscuits and this dedication has helped us deliver on our vision of ‘Making Every Day More of a Treat.’
Address: 74-78 Victoria Street, St Albans, Herts, AL1 3XH
Wills Jennings, 01727 899700, 07850 972396, wills.jennings@burtonsbiscuits.com
Dynamic, pioneering and inspiring, Camelot transforms lives – of its many winners, and the countless individuals and communities which benefit from lottery funding.
Over the past 22 years, we have made a winning business of running one of the world’s most successful lotteries. By putting our players first, we have achieved an unparalleled track record in innovation and long-term responsible growth.
Coca Cola Great Britain (CCGB) is responsible for marketing 21 brands (over 100 products) to consumers in Great Britain, developing new brands, extending existing brands and protecting Coca Cola trademarks in Great Britain. CCGB employs around 130 people at its headquarters in west London.
Here in Great Britain we manufacture and market a wide range of drinks. Our carbonated soft drinks include well-known brands such as Coca Cola, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Sprite and Fanta, as well as Oasis still fruit drinks, isotonic sports drink Powerade and Abbey Well water. We also own the Schweppes product range, Relentless energy drinks and the Glaceau Vitamin Water range.
Coca Cola Enterprises also manufactures and distributes some products for other brand owners. These include Capri-Sun, Monster energy drinks and the Appletiser, Peartiser and Fruitiser range of sparkling fruit juices.
Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks business with an outstanding collection of beverage alcohol brands across spirits, beer and wine. These brands include Johnnie Walker, Crown Royal, J&B, Windsor, Buchanan’s and Bushmills whiskies, Smirnoff, Ciroc and Ketel One Vodkas, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Jose Cuervo, Tanqueray and Guinness.
Since FIFO Wireless' inception, we have evolved from a local business selling and servicing gas stations and convenience stores with a limited variety of cell phone accessories, to a global provider of a wide variety of state-of-the-art mobile accessories. With over 20 years of experience, our passionate team offer merchandising visits to our customers that bring value to each store that’s visited.We pride ourselves on having our innovative try-me packaging to a wide variety of award-winning custom fixtures made in our own fixture manufacturing facility in Miami. Our wide range of mobile and audio accessories, as well as our innovative and unique displays help to ensure that there’s a solution for each store.
General Mills have been making their way into the homes of UK and Ireland shoppers since the 1960s. The company’s most iconic brands are Betty Crocker, Jus Roll, Old El Paso, Nature Valley, Green Giant, and Häagen-Dazs.
General Mills UK have several ‘Social Responsibility Programmes’ and one of these is the ‘Charitable Employee Match’ where employees are encouraged to participate in their own fundraising efforts and their sums raised for charitable causes are matched by the company. Matched donations have increased annually since the scheme started and some of the charities include Jeans for Genes and Cancer Research’s Race for Life.
Greencore Group is a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and the US. It has strong market positions in the UK convenience food market across food to go, chilled prepared meals, chilled soups and sauces, ambient sauces & pickles, cakes & desserts and Yorkshire puddings. It also has a fast-growing food to go business in the US, serving both the convenience and small store channel and grocery channel.
We are a member of the Japan Tobacco Group of Companies (JT), a leading international tobacco product manufacturer.
Formed in 1999 when Japan Tobacco Inc. acquired the non-US operations of tobacco company R.J.Reynolds. The further acquisition of UK-based Gallaher in 2007 nearly doubled the size of JTI by adding 11,000 new employees.
We have eight Global Flagship Brands that constitute the core of our brand portfolio, Winston, Mild Seven, Camel, Benson & Hedges, Silk Cut, Sobranie, Glamour and LD.
The Kellogg Company, doing business as Kellogg's, is an American multinational food manufacturing company headquartered in Battle Creek, Michigan, United States
We’re proudly upholding the values W.K. Kellogg instilled more than 100 years ago — but now we’re doing it in 180 countries across the world. We still provide you and your family with better breakfasts that lead to better days, and we flake corn the same way W.K. Kellogg did back in 1898. It just tastes better that way.
Kepak Group has grown to become one of Europe’s leading food processing companies. Kepak pride themselves on dedication to innovation, brand management, consumer focus and resolute devotion to food safety.
The Kepak group is divided into three key strategic business units; Kepak Meat Division (KMD), Kepak Convenience Foods (KCF) and Agra Trading.
Possibly the most recognisable brand names under Kepak Group are in the KCF sector, featuring Rustler’s; Big Al’s; Speedy Snacks and Zugo’s Deli Cafe.
With the huge pressure placed upon the food industry regarding the health and wellbeing of its consumers, Kepak Group are launching a drive to get rid of the misconceptions placed upon Rustler’s products. This is done through their ‘Fit as a Butcher’s Daughter’ ad campaign, strategically aimed at their target group of 16-24 year old males, to emphasise the quality of Rustler’s products.
Kerry Foods is a leading supplier of added-value branded and customer branded chilled food products. We supply our products to major supermarket chains, convenience stores and independent retailers across the UK, Ireland and selected international markets. We manufacture food products across three major sectors: Dairy, Meat & Savoury and Meal Solutions. Included in our portfolio of consumer branded products are over 20 high profile brands, many of which are category leaders in the chilled cabinet.
The portfolio comprises:
We’re also a leading producer of supermarket private label products, ranging from chilled and frozen ready meals, cooked meats, cheese and dairy products.
KP is home to some of the most iconic British snack brands, and also produce all kinds of delicious snacks for the UK’s retailers.
KP is also part of the European Intersnack Group, which with nearly 50 years’ combined experience in savoury snacks is now Europe’s No 2 snack producer, supplying more than 30 countries. Some of KP Snacks’ brands include McCoy’s, Hula Hoops, KP, Pom-Bear, Skips and Space Raiders.
Mars has been proudly family owned for over 100 years. It’s this independence that gives us the gift of freedom to think in generations, not quarters, so we can invest in the long-term future of our business, our people and the planet — all guided by our enduring Principles.
Molson Coors is dedicated to innovation, perhaps best demonstrated by their development of the first recyclable aluminium beer can in 1959 which not only reduced waste, but they made it available to the rest of the beverage world.
Molson Coors have over 65 brands under their belt and some of the most well known include Coors Light, Carling, blue Moon, Grolsch, Cobra, Molson M, Staropramen and many more.
Our dream is to create delicious moments of joy in everything we do.
Our 110,000 employees support this dream by manufacturing and marketing delicious food and beverage products for consumers in 165 countries around the world. We are the world’s pre-eminent maker of snacks, with leading market shares in every category and every region of the world in which we compete. Mondelēz International holds the No. 1 position globally in Biscuits, Chocolate, Candy and Powdered Beverages as well as the No. 2 position in Gum and Coffee.
About three-quarters of our annual revenue is generated in the fast growing Biscuits, Chocolate and Gum & Candy categories, and more than 40 percent of our sales come from high-growth developing markets.
Müller Milk & Ingredients aims to be the biggest and best fresh milk and ingredients business with a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country, producing skimmed, semi-skimmed, whole, flavoured milk and brands including FRijj. It also has the capacity to produce salted, unsalted and lactic butter each year for both the domestic and international markets.
Nestlé UK & Ireland is a subsidiary of Nestlé SA, the world’s leading nutrition, health and wellness company. We are a major player within the UK and Irish food industry employing 7,000 employees across the 19 sites of all our business.
We are proud to produce some of Britain’s best loved brands such as Kit Kat, Nescafé, Smarties, Buxton, Go Cat and Shreddies. Around 95% of UK households consume our brands and more than two billion Nestlé products are sold in the UK every year
NoteMachine is the UK’s largest cash machine supplier and the number one independent ATM business in Europe. From Self Fill cash machines to Fully Managed cash solutions Note Machine aim to offer a cost effective, efficient and profitable service.
NoteMachine is pleased to be working with Paul Cheema in providing a free to use ATM for the family’s Costcutter store in Tile Hill, Coventry. Paul won the prestigious Convenience Retail Award for Independent Retailer of the Year in March 2013
Paypoint is one of the UK’s leading premier branded retail networks for the convenient local payment of household bills
and mobile top-ups, with operations in Romania and Ireland.
If you’re a retailer looking for ways to generate more footfall and increase turnover, PayPoint’s added-value customer service products and payment technologies really fit the bill. As well as counter-top payment terminals, PayPoint also provides turnkey technical solutions for mobile phone top-ups through all major EPOS systems – and now offers self-fill LINK ATMs in the UK.
PepsiCo UK & Ireland employs over 5,500 people across 13 locations. These locations include the Quaker Oats mill at Cupar in Scotland, a world-leading potato crisp manufacturing plant in Leicester and the Copella apple juice plant at Boxford in Suffolk, as well as a number of other manufacturing, distribution and administration sites.
Our core brands are Walkers, Quaker, Tropicana and Pepsi – but the business also includes a wide range of other products, including, Snack a Jacks, Sunbites and Copella.
Philip Morris International is the leading international tobacco company with products sold in approximately 180 countries. Top brands include Marlboro, L&M, and Benson & Hedges.
Philip Morris International (PMI) supports charitable giving programs that improve living conditions in the places their employees reside and work, as well as in the farming communities where they source their tobacco.
The Post Office provides a range of over the counter, online and telephone services ranging from finance, insurance, and travel services to letters and parcels.
The Post office also provides a wide range of services on behalf of councils and government departments, from application to payments, helping them to improve access to services and reduce costs.
Modernisation is a key focus of the Post Office and one of the first steps of this scheme is demonstrated by digital inclusion. Post Office has been a partner of Race Online 2012 since 2010 and in the past two years has seen over 2million adults go online for the first time, representing progress towards a more equal society.
Premier Foods is a Great British food company with a passion for creating the taste Great British people love, with food that is made in Britain.
Hovis bread, Ambrosia desserts, Bachelors convenient meals, Ah!Bisto gravy, Mr Kipling cakes, Lloyd Grossman sauces, Hartley’s jams, and Sharwood’s Asian foods are just some of the products making their way into the Great British consumers’ households.
In 1987, Red Bull not only launched a completely new product, it created a whole new product category – Energy Drinks. From day one, Red Bull has been giving wings to people and ideas, setting many milestones in sports and culture. Red Bull Energy Drink is appreciated worldwide by top athletes, students, and in highly demanding professions as well as during long drives. Today Red Bull is available in more than 166 countries and sells over 5 billion cans per year worldwide.
Rich’s is a global food solutions provider with UK market expertise.
Rich Products Corporation is one of the world’s largest family-owned food companies and a leading global supplier to the foodservice, in-store bakery, retail and industrial marketplaces. We manufacture and sell an expansive array of delicious products in more than 100 countries spanning six continents. We’re acclaimed for our creative solutions and on-trend innovations that provide unparalleled business-building capabilities for our customers across the globe.
Suntory Beverage & Food Great Britain and Ireland (SBF GB&I) is one the leading soft drinks businesses in the UK and Ireland. SBF GB&I was formed in 2014 as Lucozade Ribena Suntory and is part of Suntory Beverage & Food Europe. Our much-loved soft drinks brands include Lucozade Energy, Lucozade Sport, Lucozade Revive,Ribena, Orangina and MayTea.
Every day, around the world, people reach for Unilever products. Our brands are trusted everywhere and, by listening to the people who buy them, we’ve grown into one of the world’s most successful consumer goods companies. In fact, 150 million times a day, someone somewhere chooses a Unilever product.
16 of our 40 brands are market leaders including Persil, Dove, Magnum, Flora, Marmite, Lynx – and you can find our products in the kitchens, fridges, freezers and bathrooms in nine out of ten UK homes.
Weetabix Food Company is the second largest branded manufacturer of cereals and cereal bars in the United Kingdom. Based in Northamptonshire, UK, its family of brands includes Weetabix, Alpen, Ready brek, Weetos, Oatibix, Alpen cereal Bars, Alpen Porridge and Weetabix on the go breakfast drinks. The Weetabix brand has been manufactured and sold in the UK since 1932; today it is the UK’s number one selling, most trusted and most recommended cereal and is one of Britain’s most iconic brands.
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